You Can Be What You Will to Be | Uplifting Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Listen to episode 603 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: You Can What You Will to Be | Uplifting Podcasts. Edited and adapted from What All the World is a-Seeking by Ralph Waldo Trine.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpts: There is nothing more true in connection with human life than that we grow into the likeness of those things we contemplate. Literally and scientifically true is that old saying, "as you thinketh in your heart, so you be." The "be" part is your character. Your character is the sum total of your habits. Your habits have been formed by your conscious acts.
But every conscious act is, as I have said, preceded by a thought. And so we have thought on the one hand, and character, life, and destiny on the other. It is simply the thought of the present moment, and the next moment, and then the next, and so on through all time. We can in this way attain to whatever ideals we desire.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from What All the World is a Seeking |
| 0:21.5 | by Ralph Waldo Try |
| 0:23.7 | published in 1920 |
| 0:25.9 | Unconsciously |
| 0:30.0 | Unconsciously we are forming |
| 0:36.0 | habits every moment of our lives. |
| 0:39.9 | Some are habits of a desirable nature. |
| 0:43.4 | Some are those of an undesirable nature. |
| 0:47.0 | Some, though not so bad in themselves, are exceedingly bad in their cumulative effects, |
| 0:54.0 | and cause at times much loss, much pain, |
| 0:58.0 | and much anguish, while their opposites bring us peace and joy, as well as continually |
| 1:05.0 | increasing power. Do we have within our power the ability to determine what types of habits will take |
| 1:14.4 | form in our lives? To use the power of habit to build a strong character? Yes, entirely and |
| 1:23.4 | absolutely. I will be what I will to be. can be said and should be said by every human soul. |
| 1:34.2 | But after this has been determinedly said and realized, something yet remains. |
| 1:42.1 | Something remains to be said regarding the method underlying the habit of character |
| 1:46.7 | building. For there is a simple, natural and thoroughly scientific method that everyone should |
| 1:54.8 | know, a method whereby old undesirable earth-binding habits can be broken, and new desirable heaven-lifting |
| 2:04.9 | habits can be acquired, a method whereby life in part or in its totality can be changed, |
| 2:14.0 | provided you are sufficiently in earnest to know, and knowing it to apply the method. |
| 2:21.8 | Your thoughts are the force underlying all. |
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